I love Trail of Saucers. There are some greater writers there. I am still trying to emulate. :) With compliments to Bryce, I have learned some, and been given resources to continue to approve. Writing is a challenge for me. Sometimes I write something that has clarity. I think I enjoy the engagement through comments more than trying to write.

Medium is really interesting. I am glad a friend directed me here. I read your 'Beginner's Mind' after reading your UFO. I think it is somehow applicable to the UFO article, too. So there is a theme. ???

So, here's my questions for you. You have a PhD. I am going to make an assumption, that you're reasonably good at collecting sources, shifting through data, and synthesizing information to make a reasonable conclusion. Second assumption is that you wrote an article that would be available to a general audience, maybe because (assumption) you're kind of new to this subject?

So, if you just started with the other articles on Trail of the Saucers, especially Bryce's material, you'll likely find a list of important sources. Find the original books and sources. If you were to compile the history of this, with the assumption this phenomena has been with us at least since Foo Fighters in World War II... Do you suppose you would be more inclined to speculate aliens? Further, instead of making an article to generalize towards the general audience, which likely already has an opinion, valid or not, short of the proverbial white house landing or alien tech, what would it take to convince the general PhD person in academia there is something here that is worth study. It's not the lay or the general audience that needs convincing. It's not the skeptics that need turning. We need scientist and academia to not laugh and walk away. Do you realize how much grief Avirl Loeb got for suggesting Oumuamua might be tech? He didn't say it definitively, but he made a point that really made sense to me. If all we do is look for the extraordinary evidence, we may miss the ordinary. We need to expand this box, because we're at a point in our technological ability to discover that one day, we're going to know. I submit the masses are ready, the government and academia are not.

Isn't this just fun?!